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The glob() function is exponential on pathological patterns #15964

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p5pRT opened this issue Apr 25, 2017 · 23 comments
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The glob() function is exponential on pathological patterns #15964

p5pRT opened this issue Apr 25, 2017 · 23 comments

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#131211 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT131211$

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @avar

Created by @avar

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

  $ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/tglob.pl
  0 0.000006676
  1 0.000017405
  2 0.000089812
  3 0.002393341
  4 0.034584737
  5 0.597905397
  6 9.679453373
  ^C

Perl Info

Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium

This perlbug was built using Perl 5.26.0 - Tue Apr 25 07:38:42 UTC 2017
It is being executed now by  Perl 5.26.0 - Tue Apr 11 12:13:46 UTC 2017.

Site configuration information for perl 5.26.0:

Configured by avar at Tue Apr 11 12:13:46 UTC 2017.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 26 subversion 0) configuration:
  Commit id: b57dd509f79945100ac318635982f75a676b5560
  Platform:
    osname=linux
    osvers=3.16.0-4-amd64
    archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux u.nix.is 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.16.7-2 (2014-11-06) x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-DDEBUGGING=both -Doptimize=-ggdb3 -Dusethreads -Dprefix=/home/avar/perl5/installed -Dusedevel -des'
    hint=previous
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define
    usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
    bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    optimize='-ggdb3'
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion=''
    gccversion='4.2.1 Compatible Clang 3.8.1 (tags/RELEASE_381/final)'
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=12345678
    doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=16
    longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc'
    ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/llvm-3.8/bin/../lib/clang/3.8.1/lib /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/llvm-3.8/bin/../lib/clang/3.8.1/lib /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.24.so
    so=so
    useshrplib=false
    libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.24'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
    dlext=so
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC'
    lddlflags='-shared -ggdb3 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'



@INC for perl 5.26.0:
    /home/avar/perl5/installed/lib/site_perl/5.26.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/avar/perl5/installed/lib/site_perl/5.26.0
    /home/avar/perl5/installed/lib/5.26.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/avar/perl5/installed/lib/5.26.0


Environment for perl 5.26.0:
    HOME=/home/avar
    LANG=en_US.utf8
    LANGUAGE=en_US:en
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/avar/local/bin:/home/avar/perl5/installed/bin:/home/v-perlbrew/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/v-perlbrew/perl5/perlbrew/perls/current/bin:/home/avar/local/bin:/home/avar/g/misc-scripts:/home/avar/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
    PERLDOC=-MPod::Text::Ansi
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @shlomif

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00​:55​:40 -0700, avar wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/tglob.pl
0 0.000006676
1 0.000017405
2 0.000089812
3 0.002393341
4 0.034584737
5 0.597905397
6 9.679453373
^C

On Mageia Linux v6 x86-64, I am unable to reproduce the problem. With this program​:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Time​::HiRes qw(clock_gettime);

$| = 1;
chdir "/tmp/glob" || die "$!";
for($i=0; $i<39; $i++) {
  $pattern = ("a*"x$i) . "b";
  $t = clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME);
  $mul = 10;
  for($j=0; $j<$mul; $j++) {
  glob $pattern;
  }
  $t1 = clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME);
  printf("%d %.9f\n", $i, ($t1-$t)/$mul);
}

I am getting these results​:

shlomif@​telaviv1​:~$ /home/shlomif/apps/perl/bleadperl/bin/perl5.26.0 glob.pl
0 0.000003338
1 0.000008678
2 0.000007653
3 0.000007105
4 0.000007439
5 0.000007081
6 0.000007033
7 0.000007129
8 0.000006604
9 0.000005126
10 0.000004387
11 0.000005317
12 0.000004339
13 0.000005627
14 0.000004649
15 0.000007057
16 0.000005078
17 0.000005078
18 0.000008106
19 0.000008273
20 0.000008774
21 0.000008297
22 0.000008583
23 0.000007963
24 0.000005221
25 0.000004697
26 0.000004840
27 0.000005531
28 0.000006461
29 0.000005412
30 0.000005102
31 0.000004864
32 0.000004888
33 0.000004959
34 0.000004983
35 0.000004911
36 0.000005150
37 0.000004888
38 0.000005007
shlomif@​telaviv1​:~$
shlomif@​telaviv1​:~$ /home/shlomif/apps/perl/bleadperl/bin/perl5.26.0 --version

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0 (v5.25.11-29-g4b05bc8)) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2017, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http​://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

shlomif@​telaviv1​:~$

/usr/bin/perl works fine as well.

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @pjcj

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03​:58​:13AM -0700, Shlomi Fish via RT wrote​:

On Mageia Linux v6 x86-64, I am unable to reproduce the problem.

Did you remember to create the test file?

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @iabyn

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03​:58​:13AM -0700, Shlomi Fish via RT wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00​:55​:40 -0700, avar wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/tglob.pl
0 0.000006676
1 0.000017405
2 0.000089812
3 0.002393341
4 0.034584737
5 0.597905397
6 9.679453373
^C

On Mageia Linux v6 x86-64, I am unable to reproduce the problem. With this program​:

I can reproduce it with blead an linux. Did you create the file

/tmp/glob/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

as well as the directory /tmp/glob?

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leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @shlomif

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05​:01​:42 -0700, davem wrote​:

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03​:58​:13AM -0700, Shlomi Fish via RT wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00​:55​:40 -0700, avar wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which
have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/tglob.pl
0 0.000006676
1 0.000017405
2 0.000089812
3 0.002393341
4 0.034584737
5 0.597905397
6 9.679453373
^C

On Mageia Linux v6 x86-64, I am unable to reproduce the problem. With
this program​:

I can reproduce it with blead an linux. Did you create the file

/tmp/glob/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

as well as the directory /tmp/glob?

Sorry - I missed that part - I thought the program was self-contained. Now I can reproduce that problem with the 'a'x100 file created, and furthermore «shlomif@​telaviv1​:/tmp/glob$ bash -c 'echo a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*b'» hangs.

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @demerphq

On 25 April 2017 at 09​:55, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
# Please include the string​: [perl #131211]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=131211 >

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ \./perl \-Ilib /tmp/tglob\.pl
0 0\.000006676
1 0\.000017405
2 0\.000089812
3 0\.002393341
4 0\.034584737
5 0\.597905397
6 9\.679453373
^C

For some time now we have used the code in File​::Glob for glob().

The code involved in this slowdown is in ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c in
the match function, which uses recursion to handle *. It looks like it
wouldn't be too difficult to modify this code to implement the
optimisation from Russ Cox, and probably at the same time rip out the
recursion which seems to be a poor trade off between clean code and
performance.

Yves

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @demerphq

On 25 April 2017 at 14​:48, demerphq <demerphq@​gmail.com> wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 09​:55, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
# Please include the string​: [perl #131211]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=131211 >

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ \./perl \-Ilib /tmp/tglob\.pl
0 0\.000006676
1 0\.000017405
2 0\.000089812
3 0\.002393341
4 0\.034584737
5 0\.597905397
6 9\.679453373
^C

For some time now we have used the code in File​::Glob for glob().

The code involved in this slowdown is in ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c in
the match function, which uses recursion to handle *. It looks like it
wouldn't be too difficult to modify this code to implement the
optimisation from Russ Cox, and probably at the same time rip out the
recursion which seems to be a poor trade off between clean code and
performance.

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

(that is a branch not blead)
cheers,
Yves

--
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @jkeenan

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:55​:40 GMT, avar wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/tglob.pl
0 0.000006676
1 0.000017405
2 0.000089812
3 0.002393341
4 0.034584737
5 0.597905397
6 9.679453373
^C

Similar results in a FreeBSD-10.3 VM​:

#####
$ uname -a
FreeBSD localhost 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264​: Fri Mar 25 02​:10​:02 UTC 2016 root@​releng1.nyi.freebsd.org​:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

$ perl 131211-glob.pl
0 0.000006342
1 0.000010133
2 0.000054526
3 0.000910425
4 0.033007574
5 0.644674540
6 10.338732958
^C
#####
--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@​cpan.org)

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @demerphq

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:20, demerphq <demerphq@​gmail.com> wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 14​:48, demerphq <demerphq@​gmail.com> wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 09​:55, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
# Please include the string​: [perl #131211]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=131211 >

This is a bug report for perl from avar@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please describe your issue here]

Russ Cox has published a paper describing pathological cases in
various glob implementations. Perl is among the languages which have
pathological behavior​: https://research.swtch.com/glob

Here's the stand-alone Perl program he used to test​:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189384

Running that as instructed on blead compiled just now gives;

$ \./perl \-Ilib /tmp/tglob\.pl
0 0\.000006676
1 0\.000017405
2 0\.000089812
3 0\.002393341
4 0\.034584737
5 0\.597905397
6 9\.679453373
^C

For some time now we have used the code in File​::Glob for glob().

The code involved in this slowdown is in ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c in
the match function, which uses recursion to handle *. It looks like it
wouldn't be too difficult to modify this code to implement the
optimisation from Russ Cox, and probably at the same time rip out the
recursion which seems to be a poor trade off between clean code and
performance.

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

Timing data with my patch​:

$ ./perl -Ilib t.pl
0 0.000003076
1 0.000007701
2 0.000005579
3 0.000005555
4 0.000005651
5 0.000005722
6 0.000005627
7 0.000009108
8 0.000005674
9 0.000005889
10 0.000005794
11 0.000005937
12 0.000006032
13 0.000006008
14 0.000006080
15 0.000006104
16 0.000005984
17 0.000006080
18 0.000006008
19 0.000006056
20 0.000007892
21 0.000006175
22 0.000006247
23 0.000006318
24 0.000006366
25 0.000006318
26 0.000006437
27 0.000006509
28 0.000006509
29 0.000008941
30 0.000006461
31 0.000008488
32 0.000006604
33 0.000006652
34 0.000006604
35 0.000006533
36 0.000006676
37 0.000006628
38 0.000006700

Timing data without​:

$ perl t.pl
0 0.000002098
1 0.000008988
2 0.000034094
3 0.001035738
4 0.025789261
5 0.485890818
^C

Yves

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @jkeenan

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

Timing data with my patch​:

$ ./perl -Ilib t.pl
0 0.000003076
1 0.000007701
2 0.000005579
3 0.000005555
4 0.000005651
5 0.000005722
6 0.000005627
7 0.000009108
8 0.000005674
9 0.000005889
10 0.000005794
11 0.000005937
12 0.000006032
13 0.000006008
14 0.000006080
15 0.000006104
16 0.000005984
17 0.000006080
18 0.000006008
19 0.000006056
20 0.000007892
21 0.000006175
22 0.000006247
23 0.000006318
24 0.000006366
25 0.000006318
26 0.000006437
27 0.000006509
28 0.000006509
29 0.000008941
30 0.000006461
31 0.000008488
32 0.000006604
33 0.000006652
34 0.000006604
35 0.000006533
36 0.000006676
37 0.000006628
38 0.000006700

Timing data without​:

$ perl t.pl
0 0.000002098
1 0.000008988
2 0.000034094
3 0.001035738
4 0.025789261
5 0.485890818
^C

Yves

I got similar improvements with your branch.

On Linux​:

#####
$ git show | head -5
commit cc026bf
Author​: Yves Orton <demerphq@​gmail.com>
Date​: Tue Apr 25 15​:17​:06 2017 +0200

  fixup File​::Glob degenerate matching

$ ./perl -Ilib ~/learn/perl/p5p/131211-glob.pl
0 0.001660299
1 0.000013208
2 0.000006318
3 0.000005698
4 0.000005698
5 0.000009537
6 0.000010729
7 0.000010729
8 0.000010967
#####

On the same FreeBSD-10.3 VM mentioned earlier​:

#####
$ ./perl -Ilib ~/learn/perl/p5p/131211-glob.pl
0 0.000963306
1 0.000015020
2 0.000012088
3 0.000012040
4 0.000011826
5 0.000014067
6 0.000014067
7 0.000013590
8 0.000014305
#####

--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@​cpan.org)

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p5pRT commented Apr 25, 2017

From @demerphq

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

Timing data with my patch​:

$ ./perl -Ilib t.pl
0 0.000003076
1 0.000007701
2 0.000005579
3 0.000005555
4 0.000005651
5 0.000005722
6 0.000005627
7 0.000009108
8 0.000005674
9 0.000005889
10 0.000005794
11 0.000005937
12 0.000006032
13 0.000006008
14 0.000006080
15 0.000006104
16 0.000005984
17 0.000006080
18 0.000006008
19 0.000006056
20 0.000007892
21 0.000006175
22 0.000006247
23 0.000006318
24 0.000006366
25 0.000006318
26 0.000006437
27 0.000006509
28 0.000006509
29 0.000008941
30 0.000006461
31 0.000008488
32 0.000006604
33 0.000006652
34 0.000006604
35 0.000006533
36 0.000006676
37 0.000006628
38 0.000006700

Timing data without​:

$ perl t.pl
0 0.000002098
1 0.000008988
2 0.000034094
3 0.001035738
4 0.025789261
5 0.485890818
^C

Yves

I got similar improvements with your branch.

On Linux​:

#####
$ git show | head -5
commit cc026bf
Author​: Yves Orton <demerphq@​gmail.com>
Date​: Tue Apr 25 15​:17​:06 2017 +0200

fixup File&#8203;::Glob degenerate matching

$ ./perl -Ilib ~/learn/perl/p5p/131211-glob.pl
0 0.001660299
1 0.000013208
2 0.000006318
3 0.000005698
4 0.000005698
5 0.000009537
6 0.000010729
7 0.000010729
8 0.000010967
#####

On the same FreeBSD-10.3 VM mentioned earlier​:

#####
$ ./perl -Ilib ~/learn/perl/p5p/131211-glob.pl
0 0.000963306
1 0.000015020
2 0.000012088
3 0.000012040
4 0.000011826
5 0.000014067
6 0.000014067
7 0.000013590
8 0.000014305
#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @khwilliamson

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf
[snip]
#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED at test 1

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @demerphq

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf
[snip]
#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED at test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

Yves

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @khwilliamson

On 07/11/2017 08​:44 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf
[snip]
#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED at test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

It looks like the hints file defines PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB, so unless I'm
missing something, we should just skip this test on all platforms where
that is defined.

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @demerphq

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:18, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 08​:44 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

[snip]

#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b
without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED at
test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

It looks like the hints file defines PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB, so unless I'm
missing something, we should just skip this test on all platforms where that
is defined.

I would be happy if you were to apply that. On the other hand, if that
is true then the os390 glob suffers the same underlying failure that
this test and bugfix was trying to fix. So maybe they should just use
our glob.

Yves

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @khwilliamson

On 07/11/2017 10​:21 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:18, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 08​:44 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See (poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

[snip]

#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b
without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED at
test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

It looks like the hints file defines PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB, so unless I'm
missing something, we should just skip this test on all platforms where that
is defined.

I would be happy if you were to apply that. On the other hand, if that
is true then the os390 glob suffers the same underlying failure that
this test and bugfix was trying to fix. So maybe they should just use
our glob.

Yves

But there is a reason for them not using ours. ISTR the expansions have
incompatibilities with ours

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p5pRT commented Jul 11, 2017

From @demerphq

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:37, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 10​:21 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:18, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 08​:44 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See
(poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

[snip]

#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b
without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED
at
test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

It looks like the hints file defines PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB, so unless I'm
missing something, we should just skip this test on all platforms where
that
is defined.

I would be happy if you were to apply that. On the other hand, if that
is true then the os390 glob suffers the same underlying failure that
this test and bugfix was trying to fix. So maybe they should just use
our glob.

Yves

But there is a reason for them not using ours. ISTR the expansions have
incompatibilities with ours

Hmm. Well I guess I cant be responsible for fixing that. ;-)

Yves

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p5pRT commented Jul 14, 2017

From @khwilliamson

On 07/11/2017 10​:52 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:37, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 10​:21 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 18​:18, Karl Williamson <public@​khwilliamson.com> wrote​:

On 07/11/2017 08​:44 AM, demerphq wrote​:

On 11 July 2017 at 04​:32, Karl Williamson via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07​:22​:34 -0700, demerphq wrote​:

On 25 April 2017 at 15​:55, James E Keenan via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13​:26​:46 GMT, demerphq wrote​:

Turn out I am wrong, and this was a fine trade off. Implementing
Cox'es algorithm is nearly trivial from what I can tell. See
(poorly
tested) code in​:

cc026bf

[snip]

#####

Thanks. FWIW, i realize my patch is wrong tho. Close but no cigar. I
need to fix it.

cheers,
Yves

I wasn't following this closely, but a patch got applied as 0db967b
without the ticket being closed, and now os390 is failing

# Failed test 'tried all the patterns without bailing out'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 49.
# got​: '8'
# expected​: '10'
# Failed test 'time to fail less than 10x the time to match'
# at ../ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t line 54.
# elapsed_match=0.292587518692017 elapsed_fail=52.9407045841217
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 13.
ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211 ...................................... FAILED
at
test 1

That is very weird. Does os390 use this code?

It looks like the hints file defines PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB, so unless I'm
missing something, we should just skip this test on all platforms where
that
is defined.

I would be happy if you were to apply that. On the other hand, if that
is true then the os390 glob suffers the same underlying failure that
this test and bugfix was trying to fix. So maybe they should just use
our glob.

Yves

But there is a reason for them not using ours. ISTR the expansions have
incompatibilities with ours

Hmm. Well I guess I cant be responsible for fixing that. ;-)

Yves

I have now pushed a commit to blead that skips this test if ccflags has
-DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB in it​:
5a993d8

Is there a reason this ticket hasn't been closed?

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p5pRT commented Mar 20, 2018

From @iabyn

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10​:45​:08PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote​:

I have now pushed a commit to blead that skips this test if ccflags has
-DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB in it​:
5a993d8

Is there a reason this ticket hasn't been closed?

There was an issue with ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t intermittently failing
due to timing issues. I tried fixing that a month ago with
v5.27.8-405-gf548aec and have not seen any smoke failures since, so I'm
closing the ticket now.

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@iabyn - Status changed from 'open' to 'pending release'

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From @khwilliamson

Thank you for filing this report. You have helped make Perl better.

With the release yesterday of Perl 5.28.0, this and 185 other issues have been
resolved.

Perl 5.28.0 may be downloaded via​:
https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.28.0

If you find that the problem persists, feel free to reopen this ticket.

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@khwilliamson - Status changed from 'pending release' to 'resolved'

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